Saturdays should always be chill. I firmly believe this and do my best to put it into practice. After a long week of everyone being sick, I think we all just needed a chance to decompress from that stress. Tipper played online games with her friends. G hand-sewed a zippered pouch. That would have been stressful to me, but it was relaxing for him. I did a lot of sleeping, still. Sure, there was some football and I’ll get to that shortly, but my body just wouldn’t let me sit up too long at a time. I’m okay with that.
What I’m not okay with is 4 Killed in a Shooting Near the University of Alabama’s Birmingham Campus. Multiple shooters fired into a crowd. None of the shooters have been caught. This is just stupid. I’m not okay with the seeming fact that The presidential race has exposed a fault line over the deeply personal decision to become a mother. Candace Bergen, speaking at the Emmy Awards last week, reminded us of when former VP (and Indiana loser) Dan Quayle criticized her Murphy Brown character for choosing to raise a child as a single mother. We laughed at the ridiculousness of attacking a fictional character then. Republicans still think they have some right over women’s bodies, though, and we’re not laughing now. This needs to stop.
And how did this whole Diddy mess go unreported for so long? I do not support kink-shaming and I’m concerned that is what this trial is going to dissolve into. If it was coercive and nonconsensual, though, he deserves to have the book thrown at him. We need to stop giving celebrities a pass.
I don’t understand this stupid endurance race taking place at IMS today. Whyyyyyyyy? When I took the dogs out earlier, there was the smallest trickle of cars coming into the North 40. I’m fairly sure the East gate will not be open. And what happens if it’s still raining at the 11:30 start time? The way I’m looking at radar, rainfall could be a bit heavy at times. Are they actually going to run in that mess? For six hours?
Speaking of non-conference games, who would have imagined that we’d be this far into the season and IU is still undefeated? The unranked Hoosiers downed Charlotte, 52-14. Either they’re playing some really bad teams and will get crushed in conference play, or they’re better than anyone realizes and need to be ranked. There are definitely some places open in the top 25 after this week’s games.
Some of this week’s losses hurt. Utah topped Oklahoma State in a tough one, 22-19. I didn’t get to watch that one because it wasn’t made available in our area, damnit. And I was asleep. The highlights are gut-wrenching, though. I did manage to watch the first half of Tennessee dominating OU, 25-15. There was a lot being made of this being Tennessee head coach Josh Hoeple’s return to his alma mater. He said it didn’t matter. His team said otherwise. OU never mounted a threatening offense and this may be the end of their top 25 run.
Purdue didn’t fare any better, losing to Oregon State, 21-38. Again, I could only watch the highlight reel, but Purdue seems to have lost its soul after that Notre Dame loss. I think the Boilermakers could be better than this, but they need to convince themselves that they can win.
The embarrassment of the week has to go to the student body at North Carolina. Little James Madison came in and just had their way with UNC in the first half. They scored 25 points in the first quarter and 28 in the second. What did the UNC student body do? They left the fucking game like the bunch of losers they are. When the second half started, the stadium was less than 30% full. The Tarheels came back and made a reasonable showing in the second half, though still losing, 50-70, but no one was there to see it. The UNC study body needs to be ashamed of itself. Talk about unsportsmanlike conduct! No one should accept any excuses for that type of behavior.
Today, we’ll attempt to watch as much of the Bears/Colts game as we can. Personally, as much as I’d like to see the Colts make a decent showing, I think this one goes to the Bears. Indy just doesn’t have their act together this year. Sure, they’re close, but they’re not going over .500 this season. Again. KC takes on Atlanta in a night game and so help me if KC doesn’t dominate this one from beginning to end, they need to be taken to the woodshed. We don’t need another last-minute win on a questionable call by the refs. There won’t be any three-peat if the Chiefs can’t beat the hapless Falcons.
The pets are telling me it’s time to go back to bed and they’re probably not wrong, especially if I’m going to be awake for the Colts game. The sun is shining for now, but the clouds to the West and North look pretty dark. I think I may go ahead and take a couple of Ibuprofen now, and try to get ahead of the arthritis pain.
Sigh. Why is Solaris on top of the fridge? Everyone else is asleep, but not this kitty. Is it going to be a zoomies day? We’ll find out.
Saturdays should always be chill. I firmly believe this and do my best to put it into practice. After a long week of everyone being sick, I think we all just needed a chance to decompress from that stress. Tipper played online games with her friends. G hand-sewed a zippered pouch. That would have been stressful to me, but it was relaxing for him. I did a lot of sleeping, still. Sure, there was some football and I’ll get to that shortly, but my body just wouldn’t let me sit up too long at a time. I’m okay with that.
What I’m not okay with is 4 Killed in a Shooting Near the University of Alabama’s Birmingham Campus. Multiple shooters fired into a crowd. None of the shooters have been caught. This is just stupid. I’m not okay with the seeming fact that The presidential race has exposed a fault line over the deeply personal decision to become a mother. Candace Bergen, speaking at the Emmy Awards last week, reminded us of when former VP (and Indiana loser) Dan Quayle criticized her Murphy Brown character for choosing to raise a child as a single mother. We laughed at the ridiculousness of attacking a fictional character then. Republicans still think they have some right over women’s bodies, though, and we’re not laughing now. This needs to stop.
And how did this whole Diddy mess go unreported for so long? I do not support kink-shaming and I’m concerned that is what this trial is going to dissolve into. If it was coercive and nonconsensual, though, he deserves to have the book thrown at him. We need to stop giving celebrities a pass.
I don’t understand this stupid endurance race taking place at IMS today. Whyyyyyyyy? When I took the dogs out earlier, there was the smallest trickle of cars coming into the North 40. I’m fairly sure the East gate will not be open. And what happens if it’s still raining at the 11:30 start time? The way I’m looking at radar, rainfall could be a bit heavy at times. Are they actually going to run in that mess? For six hours?
Now, about those football games …
Even in week four of this NCAA season, there were still a number of blowouts. Texas crushed UL Monroe, 51-3, despite Arch Manning tossing a whale of an interception. Ohio State trounced Marshal 49-14. Penn State beat up Kent State, 56-0. And even Notre Dame crushed Miami (OH), 28-3. Conferences are too large now for any of the schools to still be playing meaningless non-conference games in week four. The NCAA needs to do a better job with the scheduling.
Speaking of non-conference games, who would have imagined that we’d be this far into the season and IU is still undefeated? The unranked Hoosiers downed Charlotte, 52-14. Either they’re playing some really bad teams and will get crushed in conference play, or they’re better than anyone realizes and need to be ranked. There are definitely some places open in the top 25 after this week’s games.
Some of this week’s losses hurt. Utah topped Oklahoma State in a tough one, 22-19. I didn’t get to watch that one because it wasn’t made available in our area, damnit. And I was asleep. The highlights are gut-wrenching, though. I did manage to watch the first half of Tennessee dominating OU, 25-15. There was a lot being made of this being Tennessee head coach Josh Hoeple’s return to his alma mater. He said it didn’t matter. His team said otherwise. OU never mounted a threatening offense and this may be the end of their top 25 run.
Purdue didn’t fare any better, losing to Oregon State, 21-38. Again, I could only watch the highlight reel, but Purdue seems to have lost its soul after that Notre Dame loss. I think the Boilermakers could be better than this, but they need to convince themselves that they can win.
The embarrassment of the week has to go to the student body at North Carolina. Little James Madison came in and just had their way with UNC in the first half. They scored 25 points in the first quarter and 28 in the second. What did the UNC student body do? They left the fucking game like the bunch of losers they are. When the second half started, the stadium was less than 30% full. The Tarheels came back and made a reasonable showing in the second half, though still losing, 50-70, but no one was there to see it. The UNC study body needs to be ashamed of itself. Talk about unsportsmanlike conduct! No one should accept any excuses for that type of behavior.
Today, we’ll attempt to watch as much of the Bears/Colts game as we can. Personally, as much as I’d like to see the Colts make a decent showing, I think this one goes to the Bears. Indy just doesn’t have their act together this year. Sure, they’re close, but they’re not going over .500 this season. Again. KC takes on Atlanta in a night game and so help me if KC doesn’t dominate this one from beginning to end, they need to be taken to the woodshed. We don’t need another last-minute win on a questionable call by the refs. There won’t be any three-peat if the Chiefs can’t beat the hapless Falcons.
The pets are telling me it’s time to go back to bed and they’re probably not wrong, especially if I’m going to be awake for the Colts game. The sun is shining for now, but the clouds to the West and North look pretty dark. I think I may go ahead and take a couple of Ibuprofen now, and try to get ahead of the arthritis pain.
Sigh. Why is Solaris on top of the fridge? Everyone else is asleep, but not this kitty. Is it going to be a zoomies day? We’ll find out.
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